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{ "en": "Of any man brought into its presence", "me": "Whan þat a man was broght in his presence," }

{ "en": "Without delay, against it no defence.", "me": "He wolde him ete, þer helpeth no defence." }

{ "en": "And every third year thus, without fail,", "me": "And every thridde yeer, with-outen doute," }

{ "en": "They cast lots, and so goes the tale,", "me": "Þey casten lot, and, as hit com aboute" }

{ "en": "Rich or poor, they must their son take,", "me": "On riche, on pore, he moste his sone take," }

{ "en": "And of their child a present make", "me": "And of his child he moste present make" }

{ "en": "To Minos, for him to save or kill,", "me": "Unto Minos, to save him or to spille," }

{ "en": "Or let his beast devour him at its will.", "me": "Or lete his beste devoure him at his wille." }

{ "en": "And all this Minos did out of spite;", "me": "And this hath Minos don, right in despyt;" }

{ "en": "To avenge his son was his delight", "me": "To wreke his sone was set al his delyt," }

{ "en": "And keep the men of Athens in thrall", "me": "And maken hem of Aþenes his thral" }

{ "en": "While he should live, and oppress them all;", "me": "Fro yere to yere, whyl þat he liven shal;" }

{ "en": "And home he sailed when the town was won.", "me": "And hoom he saileth whan this toun is wonne." }

{ "en": "The wicked custom its course long had run", "me": "Þis wikked custom is so longe y-ronne" }

{ "en": "When the king of Athens Egeus", "me": "Til þat of Aþenes king Egeus" }

{ "en": "Must send his own son, Theseus,", "me": "Mot sende his owne sone, Þeseus," }

{ "en": "Since him the lot had fallen upon", "me": "Sith þat þe lot is fallen him upon," }

{ "en": "To be devoured, exception was there none.", "me": "To be devoured, for grace is þer non." }

{ "en": "And forth is led this woeful young knight", "me": "And forth is lad this woful yonge knight" }

{ "en": "Unto the Court of Minos outright,", "me": "Unto þe court of king Minos ful right," }

{ "en": "And in a prison fettered fast is he", "me": "And in a prison, fetered, cast is he" }

{ "en": "Until the time that he should eaten be.", "me": "Til thilke tyme he sholde y-freten be." }

{ "en": "Well may you weep, O woeful Theseus,", "me": "Wel maystow wepe, O woful Þeseus," }

{ "en": "You are a king's son, condemned thus.", "me": "Þat art a kinges sone, and dampned thus." }

{ "en": "I think a deep gratitude you would hold", "me": "Me thinketh this, þat thou were depe y-holde" }

{ "en": "For anyone who saved you from care's cold!", "me": "To whom þat saved þee fro cares colde!" }

{ "en": "And if now any woman should help you,", "me": "And now, if any woman helpe þee," }

{ "en": "You ought to be her servant too,", "me": "Wel oughtestow her servant for to be," }

{ "en": "And her true lover, from year to year.", "me": "And been her trewe lover yeer by yere!" }

{ "en": "But now to return to my purpose here.", "me": "But now to come ageyn to my matere." }

{ "en": "The tower in which Theseus they did throw", "me": "Þe tour, þer as this Þeseus is throwe" }

{ "en": "Down in the bottom, dark, and wondrous low,", "me": "Doun in þe botom derke and wonder lowe," }

{ "en": "Was joined by the wall to a privy", "me": "Was ioyning in þe walle to a foreyne;" }

{ "en": "That belonged to two daughters, I read,", "me": "And hit was longing to þe doghtren tweyne" }

{ "en": "Of King Minos, who in their chambers sweet", "me": "Of king Minos, þat in hir chambres grete" }

{ "en": "Dwelt above, facing the main street,", "me": "Dwelten above, toward þe maister-strete," }

{ "en": "In great mirth, and joy, and happiness", "me": "In mochel mirþe, in Ioye and in solas." }

{ "en": "I know not how, it happened nonetheless,", "me": "Not I nat how, hit happed þer, per cas," }

{ "en": "That as Theseus complained by night,", "me": "As Þeseus compleyned him by nighte," }

{ "en": "The king's daughters, Ariadne bright,", "me": "Þe kinges doghter, Adrian þat highte," }

{ "en": "And her sister Phaedra, heard it all,", "me": "And eek her suster Phedra, herden al" }

{ "en": "All his complaint as they stood on the wall", "me": "His compleyning, as þey stode on þe wal" }

{ "en": "And looked there upon the bright moon.", "me": "And lokeden upon þe brighte mone;" }

{ "en": "They had not wished to go to bed so soon,", "me": "Hem leste nat to go to bedde sone." }

{ "en": "And for his woe now they felt compassion.", "me": "And of his wo þey had compassioun;" }

{ "en": "That a king's son should be in such a prison", "me": "A kinges sone to ben in swich prisoun" }

{ "en": "And be devoured, they thought a great pity.", "me": "And be devoured, thoughte hem gret pitee." }

{ "en": "Then Ariadne spoke to her sister free,", "me": "Þan Adrian spak to her suster free," }

{ "en": "'Phaedra,' she said, 'beloved sister dear,", "me": "And seyde, \"Phedra, leve suster dere," }

{ "en": "This woeful lord's son can you not hear,", "me": "Þis woful lordes sone may ye nat here," }

{ "en": "How piteously he laments his kin", "me": "How pitously compleyneth he his kin," }

{ "en": "And the lowly state which he is in", "me": "And eek his pore estat þat he is in," }

{ "en": "All guiltless? Surely I feel ruth!", "me": "And gilteless? now certes, hit is rouþe!" }

{ "en": "And if you will agree, by my truth,", "me": "And if ye wol assenten, by my trouþe," }

{ "en": "He shall be helped, whatever we can do!'", "me": "He shal be holpen, how so þat we do!\"" }

{ "en": "Phaedra answered: 'I am as sorry, too,", "me": "Phedra answerde, \"y-wis, me is as wo" }

{ "en": "For him as ever I was for any man;", "me": "For him as ever I was for any man;" }

{ "en": "And to help him as best as we can", "me": "And, to his help, þe beste reed I can" }

{ "en": "I say we call the jailor secretly", "me": "Is þat we doon þe gayler prively" }

{ "en": "To come and speak with us right swiftly,", "me": "To come, and speke with us hastily," }

{ "en": "And bring the woeful man when he comes.", "me": "And doon this woful man with him to come." }

{ "en": "For if he this monster overcomes,", "me": "For if he may this monstre overcome," }

{ "en": "He would be free; there is no other way.", "me": "Þan were he quit; þer is noon oþer bote." }

{ "en": "Let us test him deeply, and let him say", "me": "Lat us wel taste him at his herte-rote," }

{ "en": "Whether, if a weapon he should have,", "me": "Þat, if so be þat he a wepen have," }

{ "en": "He would dare his life protect and save,", "me": "Wher þat he dar, his lyf to kepe and save," }

{ "en": "Fight with the fiend, and himself defend.", "me": "Fighten with this fend, and him defende." }

{ "en": "For in the prison which he must descend,", "me": "For, in þe prison, þer he shal descende," }

{ "en": "You well know the beast has a place", "me": "Ye wite wel, þat þe beste is in a place" }

{ "en": "That is not dark, and has room and space", "me": "Þat nis nat derk, and hath roum eek and space" }

{ "en": "To wield an axe or sword or stave or knife,", "me": "To welde an ax or swerd or staf or knyf," }

{ "en": "So that, I think, he well might save his life;", "me": "So þat, me thinketh, he sholde save his lyf;" }

{ "en": "If he should prove a man, he shall do so.", "me": "If þat he be a man, he shal do so." }

{ "en": "And we shall make balls of hemp also", "me": "And we shul make him balles eek also" }

{ "en": "And wax, that when its jaws gape, then fast", "me": "Of wexe and towe, þat, whan he gapeth faste," }

{ "en": "Into the beast's throat he shall them cast", "me": "Into þe bestes throte he shal hem caste" }

{ "en": "To quell its hunger and so foil its teeth;", "me": "To slake his hunger and encombre his teeth;" }

{ "en": "And right anon when this Theseus sees", "me": "And right anon, whan þat Þeseus seeth" }

{ "en": "The beast choking, he can on him leap", "me": "Þe beste achoked, he shal on him lepe" }

{ "en": "To slay him, before they further meet.", "me": "To sleen him, or þey comen more to-hepe." }

{ "en": "The weapon shall the jailor ere that tide", "me": "Þis wepen shal þe gayler, or þat tyde," }

{ "en": "Secretly within the prison hide;", "me": "Ful privily within þe prison hyde;" }

{ "en": "And as the house is crinkled to and fro", "me": "And, for þe hous is crinkled to and fro," }

{ "en": "And has such complex ways to go –", "me": "And hath so queinte weyes for to go --" }

{ "en": "For it is shaped as a maze is wrought –", "me": "For hit is shapen as þe mase is wroȝt --" }

{ "en": "I've a remedy for that in my thought,", "me": "Þerto have I a remedie in my thoght," }

{ "en": "That with a clew of twine the way he's gone", "me": "Þat, by a clewe of twyne, as he hath goon," }

{ "en": "The same way he may return anon,", "me": "Þe same wey he may returne anoon," }

{ "en": "Following ever the thread till out he'll come.", "me": "Folwing alwey þe threed, as he hath come." }

{ "en": "And when he the beast has overcome,", "me": "And, what þat he this beste hath overcome," }

{ "en": "Then out of this dread away he may flee,", "me": "Þen may he fleen awey out of this drede," }

{ "en": "And the jailor too with him may lead,", "me": "And eek þe gayler may he with him lede," }

{ "en": "And at home advance him in his country", "me": "And him avaunce at hoom in his contree," }

{ "en": "Since so great a lord's son is he.", "me": "Sin þat so greet a lordes sone is he." }

{ "en": "This is my counsel if such he dare take.'", "me": "Þis is my reed, if þat he dar hit take.\"" }

{ "en": "Why should I longer story of this make?", "me": "What sholde I lenger sermoun of hit make?" }

{ "en": "The jailor came and with him Theseus.", "me": "Þe gayler cometh, and with him Þeseus." }

{ "en": "And when the thing had been settled thus,", "me": "And whan thise thinges been acorded thus," }

{ "en": "Down fell Theseus on bended knee:", "me": "Adoun sit Þeseus upon his knee: --" }

{ "en": "'The rightful lady of my life,' quoth he,", "me": "\"Þe righte lady of my lyf,\" quod he," }